Senior Staff Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Drive Ripple’s AI Security technical strategy and roadmap across AI systems, agentic workflows, and the AI development lifecycle.
• Design and implement security controls for LLM-integrated and agentic AI systems, including sandboxing, identity and permission scoping, runtime monitoring, and containment.
• Own security guardrails, AI provenance standards, dual-review requirements, and audit trail controls for AI-assisted development.
• Lead security reviews and risk assessments for LLM APIs, SaaS copilots, AI code editors, agentic workflows, MCP servers, and vendor-embedded AI.
• Build and scale Shadow AI detection, enforce acceptable-use policies, and maintain an auditable AI security perimeter.
• Advise on agentic AI threats including MCP server security, tool poisoning, prompt injection, and excessive agency.
• Contribute to industry frameworks, regulatory engagement, and published research on responsible AI security.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Security Engineering experience with depth in at least two domains such as Product Security, Cloud Security, or Security Operations.
• Meaningful hands-on experience with AI or ML security and strong knowledge of prompt injection, jailbreaks, data poisoning, model extraction, RAG manipulation, tool poisoning, excessive agency, and MCP vulnerabilities.
• Experience securing agentic AI systems through sandboxing, permission scoping, human-in-the-loop design, or runtime monitoring.
• Fluency in cloud security on AWS, GCP, or Azure; CI/CD pipeline security; container and Kubernetes security; IAM; and API security.
• Experience with threat modeling approaches such as STRIDE, MITRE ATLAS, or OWASP LLM Top 10.
• Experience in FinTech, crypto, or regulated environments is preferred, along with familiarity with NYDFS, MAS, DORA, or SOC 2.
• Ability to influence technical direction across Engineering, Product, and Security without direct authority and build solutions in ambiguous environments.

Benefits

• Professional development budget and opportunities to work with experienced industry leaders.
• Hybrid in-office collaboration with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees attend in person.
• Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, and bi-weekly all-company meetings.
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
• Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
• R&R days, generous vacation, wellness reimbursement, and weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming.
• Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits.
• Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, premium snacks and beverages, and company events.
• Benefits listed apply to full-time employees.